So This Thing Happened...
I've held off on opening my mouth about this mostly because there's been enough Angry White Guys opening their yaps and sounding off without much thought as it is...but a couple of years back, I wrote something about an argument that was going on in the overall gaming community at the time (and has flared up now and again since) that left me scratching my head. Thanks to certain recent revelations, I now kind of get what was going on behind all the fuss, the person who had kicked things off into a state of high dudgeon, and a few other things that were involved. (I'm not naming names because That Guy has already had his ego stroked by bad publicity.) My feelings on the utter absurdity of the entire exercise haven't changed. For the sake of some self- important jerk's ego, an entire community threw itself under the proverbial bus. Not the first time we've ended up living down to our worse reputation. Our track record on this is not something in which we s